Author: Phil

Since I’ve learned about nftables, I heard numerous times that it would provide better performance than its designated predecessor, iptables. Yet, I have never seen actual figures of performance comparisons between the two and so I decided to do a little side-by-side comparison.

Wanting to become familiar with nftables, I decided to jump in at the deep end and just use it on my local workstation. The goal was to replace the existing iptables setup, ideally without any drawbacks. The following essay will guide you through what I have done in order to achieve that.